Wie kaum ein anderer versteht es Daniel C. Dennett darzustellen, was der Begriff Evolutionäre Biologie bedeutet. Seine Ausführungen zum Phänomen des Freiheitsgefühls gehört zum brillantesten, was es zur Zeit gibt. Dennett shows that human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species - us. Is there really such a thing as free will? How can humans make genuinely independent choices if we are just a cluster of cells and genes in a world determined by scientific laws? In this title, the author provides a defense of free will.…mehr
Wie kaum ein anderer versteht es Daniel C. Dennett darzustellen, was der Begriff Evolutionäre Biologie bedeutet. Seine Ausführungen zum Phänomen des Freiheitsgefühls gehört zum brillantesten, was es zur Zeit gibt. Dennett shows that human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species - us.Is there really such a thing as free will? How can humans make genuinely independent choices if we are just a cluster of cells and genes in a world determined by scientific laws? In this title, the author provides a defense of free will.
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Daniel C. Dennett was University Professor Emeritus at Tufts University and the author of numerous books including From Bacteria to Bach and Back, Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking, Breaking the Spell, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, and Consciousness Explained. He died on 19 April 2024.
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freedom evolvesPreface Chapter 1: Natural Freedom Learning What We Are I Am Who I Am The Air We Breathe Dumbo's Magic Feather and the Peril of Paulina Chapter 2: A Tool For Thinking About Determinism Some Useful Oversimplifications From Physics to Design in Conway's Life World Can We Get The Deus ex Machina? From Slow-motion Avoidance to Star Wars The Birth of Evitability Chapter 3: Thinking About Determinism Possible Worlds Causation Austin's Putt A Computer Chess Marathon Events without Causes in a Deterministic Universe Will the Future Be Like the Past? Chapter 4: A Hearing For Libertarianism The Appeal of Libertarianism Where Should We Put the Much-needed Gap? Kane's Model of Indeterministic Decision-making "If you make yourself really small, you can externalize virtually everything" Beware of Prime Mammals How Can It Be "Up to Me"? Chapter 5: Where Does All The Design Come From? Early Days The Prisoner's Dilemma E Pluribus Unum? Digression: The Threat of Genetic Determinism Degrees of Freedom and the Search for Truth Chapter 6: The Evolution Of Open Minds How Cultural Symbionts Turn Primates into Persons The Diversity of Darwinian Explanations Nice Tools, but You Still Have to Use Them Chapter 7: The Evolution Of Moral Agency Benselfishness Being Good in Order to Seem Good Learning to Deal with Yourself Our Costly Merit Badges Chapter 8: Are You Out Of The Loop? Drawing the Wrong Moral Whenever the Spirit Moves You A Mind-writer's View A Self of One's Own Chapter 9: Bootstrapping Ourselves Free How We Captured Reasons and Made Them Our Own Psychic Engineering and the Arms Race of Rationality With a Little Help from My Friends Autonomy, Brainwashing, and Education Chapter 10: The Future Of Human Freedom Holding the Line against Creeping Exculpation "Thanks, I Needed That" Are We Freer Than We Want to Be? Human Freedom Is Fragile Bibliography Index
freedom evolvesPreface Chapter 1: Natural Freedom Learning What We Are I Am Who I Am The Air We Breathe Dumbo's Magic Feather and the Peril of Paulina Chapter 2: A Tool For Thinking About Determinism Some Useful Oversimplifications From Physics to Design in Conway's Life World Can We Get The Deus ex Machina? From Slow-motion Avoidance to Star Wars The Birth of Evitability Chapter 3: Thinking About Determinism Possible Worlds Causation Austin's Putt A Computer Chess Marathon Events without Causes in a Deterministic Universe Will the Future Be Like the Past? Chapter 4: A Hearing For Libertarianism The Appeal of Libertarianism Where Should We Put the Much-needed Gap? Kane's Model of Indeterministic Decision-making "If you make yourself really small, you can externalize virtually everything" Beware of Prime Mammals How Can It Be "Up to Me"? Chapter 5: Where Does All The Design Come From? Early Days The Prisoner's Dilemma E Pluribus Unum? Digression: The Threat of Genetic Determinism Degrees of Freedom and the Search for Truth Chapter 6: The Evolution Of Open Minds How Cultural Symbionts Turn Primates into Persons The Diversity of Darwinian Explanations Nice Tools, but You Still Have to Use Them Chapter 7: The Evolution Of Moral Agency Benselfishness Being Good in Order to Seem Good Learning to Deal with Yourself Our Costly Merit Badges Chapter 8: Are You Out Of The Loop? Drawing the Wrong Moral Whenever the Spirit Moves You A Mind-writer's View A Self of One's Own Chapter 9: Bootstrapping Ourselves Free How We Captured Reasons and Made Them Our Own Psychic Engineering and the Arms Race of Rationality With a Little Help from My Friends Autonomy, Brainwashing, and Education Chapter 10: The Future Of Human Freedom Holding the Line against Creeping Exculpation "Thanks, I Needed That" Are We Freer Than We Want to Be? Human Freedom Is Fragile Bibliography Index
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